Position: Organizing Strategy & Innovation Program Manager
Reports To: Organizing Strategy & Innovation Program Director
About Us:
The Movement Innovation Collaborative (MIC) is a new entity that will deepen and expand the capacity, impact, and sustainability of California's grassroots movements for racial justice and social transformation. The Movement Innovation Collaborative will support changemakers and organizations to catalyze innovations in movement strategy and power building, intergenerational leadership development, and our collective long-term sustainability and resiliency. Through a network of physical and virtual "centers," the Movement Innovation Collaborative will also contribute a key piece of infrastructure needed to fuel transformative structural change across California, serving hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of grassroots leaders in California.
MIC's core strategies to deepen power, coordination, and impact include: Movement Strategy and Innovation (MS&I), Organizing Strategy and Innovation (OS&I), Healing, Sustainability and Culture (HSC), Network of Centers (NoC), Regional Ecosystems (RE), and Learning & Impact (L&I). In all areas, MIC advances transformative organizing, strategic alignment and creates program, evaluation, and infrastructure supports that are additive and synergistic with existing movement efforts.
Position Overview:
The Program Manager for the Organizing Strategy & Innovations (OSI) program is a tactical, execution-focused role. Working closely with the OSI Program Director, the Manager translates high-level strategies into structured, actionable, and measurable deliverables. This position is responsible for the day-to-day coordination of core projects—such as resourced cohorts and capacity-building initiatives—ensuring they are delivered on schedule and meet high-quality standards. The Program Manager handles tactical communications, coordinates program logistics, and supports the implementation of MIC’s transformative organizing and experimentation agenda.
What You’ll Be Doing: In the MIC’s start-up phase, the OSI Program Manager will inform and support implementation of program strategy through:
Project Planning, Coordination & Tactical Implementation
- Day-to-Day Delivery: Manage the execution of core OSI initiatives, including cohorts focused on upsurge absorption, intergenerational leadership, and organizer pipeline infrastructure.
- Operational Logistics: Coordinate major project operations, including relationship management with field partners, event logistics, and participant engagement tracking for OSI programs.
- Schedule & Scope: Support the development of detailed project scopes and implementation plans, tracking goals and learning milestones to ensure timely completion.
- Issue Management: Make tactical adjustments to resolve immediate implementation challenges and escalate critical programmatic roadblocks to the Program Director.
Tactical Communication & Relationship Management
- Partner Communication: Facilitate regular, program-specific information sharing within the MIC network and with anchor field partners and practitioners.
- Meeting Facilitation: Create agendas and facilitate committee meetings as needed to ensure discussions result in clear, actionable next steps.
- Collaborative Spaces: Support the management of cross-racial, intergenerational spaces for collaborative learning and strategic alignment.
Program Evaluation & Action Research
- Learning Documentation: Support documentation to share "movement lessons" learned from experiments in building OSI-related movement infrastructure.
- Research Support: Implement data tracking and other research tasks to support action research for testing OSI models in collaboration with the MS&I and Learning & Impact teams.
- Knowledge Capture: Assist in the codification of breakthrough strategies and findings into accessible toolkits and learning models for the field.
- Landscape Assessments: Support assessments of current trends in Transformative Organizing, including models and frameworks.
Administrative & Financial Coordination
- Budget Tracking: Monitor project-specific expenditures to assist the Program Director in tracking overall resource allocation.
- Systems Management: Collaborate with MIC operations teams to implement program functions using internal systems and infrastructure (e.g., Salesforce, Asana, etc.)
Who You Are (Minimum Qualifications):
While no one person will embody all of the qualities described below, the ideal Program Manager candidate will possess a unique blend of operational rigor and movement fluency, characterized by many of the following abilities, attributes, and experiences:
- Experience: At least 5–7 years of experience in program management, development or administration, ideally within a social movement or community organizing coalition context.
- Mission Alignment: Strong commitment to MIC’s mission of racial justice and transformative structural change in California.
- Relational Skills: High-level of cultural awareness and experience building trusted relationships and working with different demographic groups and diverse regions.
- Tactical Expertise: Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects concurrently with high attention to detail.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate raw data into actionable lessons using an array of technical tools.
- Startup Resilience: A flexible approach to working in a dynamic startup environment, with the ability to adapt project plans based on feedback.
- Regional Knowledge: Strong familiarity with the grassroots organizations and political landscape of California.
Employment Classification and Salary
- This is a full-time, exempt position starting as soon as possible. This role is remote; however, the candidate must be in California.
- Salary Range: The salary range for this position is $100,000–$120,000.
- The MIC has a 90-day trial period policy for all new hires. This allows both the organization and the employee to ensure a great fit. During this period, performance, adaptability, and cultural alignment will be assessed through ongoing feedback and formal review.
Benefits
- 100% organization-funded medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees, their spouses or domestic partners, and their children. Coverage begins on the first day of employment.
- Paid Time Off: As a full-time employee, you will receive 15 days of vacation, 12 sick days per year, and a generous paid family leave policy. Accrual of this benefit begins on the first day of employment and becomes available upon completion of the 90-day trial period.
- Paid Holidays: 21 days total, including a 10-day Winter Break overlapping with Christmas and New Year’s Day. Additionally, 4 Floating Holidays will be made available upon completion of the 90-day trial period.
- Retirement Plan: MIC offers a 403b retirement plan. MIC contributes an employer-paid amount equal to 5% of your salary. Vesting for this contribution is immediate. Employees have a default 3% personal contribution rate and may adjust it at any time. This benefit becomes available after the 90-day trial period.
MIC’s salaries and benefits reflect our commitment to collective care and sustainability. They may evolve as the organization grows, and employees will be updated as changes occur. Additional details will be provided upon hiring.
Movement Innovation Collaborative is an equal-opportunity employer.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage those who see alignment with our mission and believe they have the relevant skills and experience to apply. We commit to providing an inclusive work environment where everyone is treated with fairness, dignity, and respect.